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| | Belle Isle Prison Camp |
 | | The island was devoid of trees, the ground being low and sandy, exposed in winter to wind and storm, and in summer time scorched under the heat and glare of noonday, or dank with the malarious fogs of night. |
 | | Some crawled for protection into the ditch, heaped against each other, and of those the “outer row” often froze to death during sleep; some dug holes in the sand, and burrowed in them; hundreds passed the cold nights in running to and fro, to keep their blood from coagulation. |
 | | Dubois Krom was taken prisoner and sent to Belle Isle Confederate Prison Camp located in the James River, between Richmond and Manchester, notorious as a prison of confinement for Union soldiers. |
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